Castleford holidaymaker dies after Majorca stairway plunge

A YOUNG man from Yorkshire died yesterday after plunging from the third floor of a hotel in Majorca while climbing up the stairwell, according to local reports.

By The Newsroom

Published 18th Apr 2012, 07:00 BST

Alan Atkinson, 20, from Pontefract, fell to the ground floor of the three-star Hotel Martinigue in Magaluf, on the holiday island’s south coast, at 3am.

Police said that he had been drinking and was with two friends when the incident happened.

He was taken to the San Espases hospital in nearby Palma but died three hours later in intensive care.

Mr Atkinson had celebrated his 20th birthday only last Wednesday.

In a separate tragedy a plane made an emergency diversion and landed after a passenger died. The incident happened on a flight from Leeds Bradford Airport to Prague last Friday, Jet2 said.

The passenger, believed to be a 22-year-old man, suffered serious breathing difficulties as the plane was travelling north of Dusseldorf in Germany. The man’s name and nationality has not been released.